Channel Patch

[Peter Stuge]

On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 12:51:46PM -0400, Chris Rapier wrote:
> > If you wanted to be tricky, you could add a precomputed skip step
> > to the channels array that would point to the next allocated
> > channel, allowing the loop to skip past unused channels.
> 
> One thing I'm not is tricky. I always end up confusing myself.
> Mostly I  just write this stuff as research projects in the hope
> that it interests someone else enough to actual code things
> properly :)

The step optimization is really simple and still allows index
lookups. The step works just like a pointer in the linked list.

As long as individual channel entries do not need to be atomically
inserted or removed it'll work great!


//Peter